Syracuse · Rochester · Buffalo · Greater Upstate NY
AMC Solutions brings Fortune 500 finance and operations discipline to independent businesses across Upstate New York. We open the books, identify where profit is leaking, and build the visibility owners need to make confident decisions.
Our mission
Large companies use finance, operations, and analytics to protect margin and make better decisions. Independent businesses deserve the same discipline, delivered in a practical way that fits their size, speed, and budget. AMC Solutions exists to close that operating gap — not by selling software, but by showing up, opening the books, and doing the work alongside you.
We’re based in the Greater Upstate New York region and built specifically for owners across Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo. Local industry. Local meetings. Real accountability.
Vendor reviews, telecom and fuel audits, freight and 3PL renegotiation, software stack rationalization, insurance benchmarking.
Clean books, weekly KPI dashboards, cash forecasts, and margin analysis owners can read in five minutes.
Pricing, capacity, sales mix, and operations decisions backed by numbers — not gut feel and a hopeful Q4.
Services
Pick what you need today. Most owners start with a Diagnostic, then choose two or three of the focused engagements below. Project or monthly retainer — no long-term contracts.
The grown-up version of an interim CFO. Forecasting, board-ready reporting, banking relationships, capital planning, and the steady hand on the wheel between bookkeeper and your future full-time hire.
Line-by-line review of the operating P&L. Where are we overpaying, double-paying, or paying for something we stopped using two quarters ago?
We open the books, clean them up, and translate them into something a busy owner can actually use to make decisions on a Tuesday afternoon.
One dashboard. The five to nine numbers that actually run your business. Refreshed weekly. No 40-tab spreadsheet, no consultant theater.
Throughput, scheduling, capacity, and labor. Where the work actually gets done — and where it gets stuck.
What does the next 18 months look like, paid for from real cash flow, with a plan you actually believe in?
The boring discipline that quietly compounds: documented workflows, fewer handoffs, less rework, owner gets weekends back.
What you make, by SKU / job / route / customer — after the costs you actually incur. Often the single highest-leverage week of work we do.
How it works
No lock-in. No 40-page proposal. We start by understanding the business, then we agree on the smallest piece of work that creates the most value.
A 30-minute conversation. What’s the business, what’s working, what’s keeping you up at night. No deck, no pitch.
We open the books and the operating data. P&L, balance sheet, vendor list, top customers, any KPIs you already track. Findings written up plainly.
A short, ranked list of moves: cost cuts, financial fixes, operating changes, growth bets. Each with effort, impact, and an owner.
We do the work alongside you, or we hand it off cleanly. Monthly reviews keep the numbers honest and the plan current.
Founder
I built AMC Solutions to put real, in-the-trenches operating and financial experience within reach of owners across Upstate New York — the kind of support that usually sits inside larger companies with full finance, analytics, and operations teams.
My career has touched 13 industries, with the strongest operating depth in Financial Services, Manufacturing, Logistics, Retail, and Food & Beverage. The throughline is the same: read the numbers honestly, understand where the work actually happens, and make a small number of decisive changes.
“The goal is practical clarity: know where the money is going, know where margin is made, and know which moves deserve the owner’s time next.”
Austin Mead, Founder & Principal Consultant
Industry expertise
The strongest fit is owner-led businesses where finance and operations meet: inventory, labor, routes, throughput, pricing, and customer profitability.
Distribution, transportation, yard services, fleet utilization, lane profitability, fuel programs, 3PL governance, trailer pools, and dock-door productivity.
Labor, throughput, inventory, cost-to-serve, scrap, capacity planning, production scheduling, vendor costs, and margin by product line.
Reporting discipline, risk visibility, process controls, cash forecasting, investment-management exposure, and executive-ready financial storytelling.
Pricing, sales mix, SKU profitability, inventory turns, labor scheduling, shrink, vendor programs, and store-level performance visibility.
Ingredient and packaging costs, waste, menu or SKU margins, staffing, distribution, vendor negotiation, and promotion economics.
Reviews
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“Within 60 days Austin had our books cleaned up and a one-page weekly number we can actually run the business off of. We finally know which routes make money.”
“The vendor and software audit alone paid for the engagement three times over in the first quarter. He found dollars in places I had stopped looking years ago.”
“We’d outgrown our bookkeeper but we weren’t ready for a full-time CFO. AMC was exactly the bridge we needed — and it didn’t feel like consultant theater.”
“Austin walked our yard for two days, sat with the dispatchers, and came back with five changes. Detention recovery alone funded a second switcher.”
“Pricing analysis we’d been putting off for two years. Austin finished it in three weeks and gave us defensible numbers we actually rolled out to customers.”
“Honest, local, and zero ego. He treated our 14-person business with the same discipline you’d expect at a much bigger company.”
“The KPI dashboard he built is the first thing I open every Monday. It changed how my leadership team meets.”
“We hired AMC for a 6-week diagnostic and kept Austin on retainer. Best operating decision I’ve made in five years.”
Free consultation
The fastest way to start is a quick call to 315-436-3375. Prefer to write? Use the form — it sends a draft to your default email client so nothing leaves your computer until you hit send.